Food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic: A genuine concern for people from disadvantaged community and low-income families in Province 2 of Nepal

DR Singh, DR Sunuwar, SK Shah, LK Sah, K Karki… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Food insecurity is a serious social and public health problem which is
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic especially in resource-poor countries such as …

Did weekly economic index and volatility index impact US food sales during the first year of the pandemic?

N Das, P Gangopadhyay - Financial Innovation, 2023 - Springer
We explore the impacts of economic and financial dislocations caused by COVID-19
pandemic shocks on food sales in the United States from January 2020 to January 2021. We …

Does online food shopping boost dietary diversity? Application of an endogenous switching model with a count outcome variable

W Ma, P Vatsa, H Zheng, Y Guo - Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022 - Springer
Increasingly, rural households in developing countries are shopping for food online, and the
COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. In parallel, dietary guidelines worldwide …

Factors affecting anaemia among women of reproductive age in Nepal: a multilevel and spatial analysis

DR Sunuwar, DR Singh, B Adhikari, S Shrestha… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The main objective of this study was to explore the factors affecting anaemia
among women of reproductive age (WRA) in Nepal using spatial and multilevel …

Food insecurity, low dietary diversity and poor mental health among Syrian refugee mothers living in vulnerable areas of Greater Beirut, Lebanon

J Abou-Rizk, T Jeremias, G Cocuz… - British Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are facing vulnerabilities that are affecting their food insecurity
(FI) levels. The objectives of this study were to measure dietary diversity, FI and mental …

Factors influencing household and women's dietary diversity in migrant households in central Nepal

HN Gartaula, K Atreya, K Kattel, DB Rahut - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Food security and dietary diversity, defined as providing either physical (availability) or
economic (accessibility) access to food, are linked with access to and control over …

Human milk immune factors, maternal nutritional status, and infant sex: The INSPIRE study

B Caffé, A Blackwell, BD Fehrenkamp… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Breastfeeding is an energetically costly and intense form of human parental
investment, providing sole‐source nutrition in early infancy and bioactive components …

Minimum dietary diversity and associated factors among lactating mothers in Haryana, India: a community based cross-sectional study

S Shumayla, EM Irfan, N Kathuria, SK Rathi… - BMC pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Food adequacy and dietary quality in the lactation period are fundamental for
maternal and child health. Lactating mothers are vulnerable to malnutrition because of …

Household food insecurity and dietary diversity of women of reproductive age among smallholder farming households in northwest Bangladesh

D Roy, F Zulfiqar, TW Tsusaka… - Ecology of Food and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite Bangladesh's remarkable progress in agricultural production over the past few
decades, household food and nutrition insecurity persist, especially in rural areas. The …

Socioeconomic and demographic correlates of child nutritional status in Nepal: an investigation of heterogeneous effects using quantile regression

UP Bhusal, VP Sapkota - Globalization and Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Child undernutrition continues to be a major public health problem in many
countries, including Nepal. The repercussions of undernutrition are not only limited to the …